Reposted by Vincent Traag
"This opens a real opportunity to say plainly what the biggest commercial publishers have spent decades obscuring: publisher fees are not required to ensure public access in the first place....there is no cost to comply with a public access mandate."
#AcademicPublishing
thehill.com
End the false choice of expensive research fees
Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC, argues that the Office of Management and Budget should clarify that researchers can satisfy federal public access mandates by depositing manuscripts in …
![“As expanded in December and applied since, [the policy] does not stop at individuals who use sovereign authority to suppress protected expression in the United States. It reaches private researchers, advocates, nonprofit leaders, and trust-and-safety professionals whose asserted “censorship” consists of studying platforms, reporting on disinformation, petitioning for access to platform data, and urging platforms or advertisers to act on what they find.” – James E. Boasberg, Chief Judge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsctfvkbeuj73jfer5r4g2gh/bafkreiajwj4kkkwgbclnmq6fgvb5zfyrmdhgpgvnrbm6ly7zrvek4uihzq)
